Changelog

3.7.0

Added

• Added Scaleway Instances provider Documentation

• New tutorial examples of Federated Learning with the Flower framework on Grid’5000 and Scaleway provider:

  • Flower Federated Learning on Grid5000

  • Flower Federated Learning on Grid5000 and Scaleway

Changed

• Quieter errors when not in debug mode (–debug/-d)

• Added support for up to python 3.13

3.6.0

Added

• Added option --env-only for init command to allow for the creation of an .e2c_env file without initializing new experiment configuration files.

  Documentation

Changed

• Allow for an empty network.yaml configuration file

• Added a .gitignore file to the init command output

• “rate” and “delay” parameters now mandatory in network.yaml network configurations

• You now need to specify “deploy” as a job_type in the layers_services.yaml file to deploy an env_name.

  Documentation

Breaking

• [Kwollect] You now need to specify the [k_monitoring] role for G5K nodes you want to fetch data from.

• [Kwollect] Data now backed up in json files per nodes.

3.5.3

Fixed

• Fixed G5k firewall deployment

3.5.2

Fixed

• Fixed IPv6 enabling in G5K interface handling.

3.5.1

Removed

• Removed pytz dependency

3.5.0

Added

• Added __g5k_ipv6_address__ extra information for grid5000 nodes.

  Documentation

• Added --ansible_forks option to set ansible forks (the number of concurrent tasks run on hosts) number which can speed up workflow deployment and execution.

  Documentation

Changed

• Improved infrastructure deployment (layers-services or `` deploy`` command) by removing redundant steps

3.4.0

Changed

• e2clab ssh can now be run asynchronously while another e2clab command is running once an infrastructure is deployed.

• Now uses a .e2c_state dir to store experiment state

Added

• Added options --destroy-on-fail for deploy to automatically free resources in failed experiments.

  Documentation

• Added option --destroy for the destroy command to destroy deployed network emulations.

  Documentation

• Added option --workflow_env for the init command to initialize a project using worflow_env

  Documentation

• Added option --pause/-p for the deploy command to wait for user input before finalizing experiment

  Documentation

• init command now initiates SCENARIO_DIR with template files.

  Documentation

• Added ipv6 option for G5K testbed enabling public IPv6 addresses for nodes.

  Documentation

3.3.1

Fixed

• Major backup bug for monitoring kwollect manager

3.3.0

Added

• Added support for EnOSlib 10

• Added options --destroy for the finalize and deploy commands, allowing for automatic freeing of computing resources.

  Documentation

• Added a ‘Kwollect’ monitoring manager, allowing users to use and pull metrics from the Grid’5000 API

  Documentation

Changed

• e2clab workfow SCENARIO_DIR launch --app_conf APP_CONf_LIST no longer runs finalize after each app_conf. Use --finalize tag for this.

  Documentation

Fixed

• Loggers outputing to previous experiments files when repeating deploy experiments (#46)

• Loggers not outputing to logfiles when running workflows incrementally (#44)

• workflow_env syntax checking failing when app_conf names are digits (#39)

3.2.2

Fixed

• Fixed import bug that only allowed experiments containing Iotlab resources (#32)

3.2.1

Fixed

• Fixed e2clab ssh SCENARIO_DIR not understanding environment variables (#30)

3.2.0

Added

• Configure e2clab with environment variables like E2C_SCENARIO_DIR or E2C_ARTIFACTS_DIR to override command line arguments and default variables.

  Documentation

• Configure e2clab with a .e2c_env file which can be used to automatically set environment variables during command run.

  Documentation

• New commands:

  • e2clab ssh: Prompts the user for a host to ssh to. Documentation

  • e2clab edit: Command to quickly open an editor to scenario’s configuration file. Documentation

  • e2clab init: Command to quickly create .e2c_env file for your experiment. Documentation

  • e2clab get-output-dir: Print latest experiment dir to stdout.

    Documentation

Documentation

• Enabling tab completion on your shell

3.1.0

Changed

• [BREAKING] Service API parameter syntax change for user-defined services in register_service method.

  Documentation

3.0.0

Added

• New commands:

  • e2clab services: manage user-defined services without having to copy files around. Documentation

  • e2clab destroy: frees testbed resources with a single command. Documentation

  • e2clab check-configuration: checks configuration file syntax.Documentation

• Add suppport for EnOSlib 9

• New worflow_env.yaml file to improve --app_conf capabilities. Documentation

  • Allows to chain run differrent configurations of workflow.yaml.

• New e2clab.log and e2clab.err logging files in experiment’s output folders.

• New CLI command-line options, documentation:

  • --debug parameter to allow debug-level logging.

  • --mute_enoslib mute inherited enoslib logging.

  • --mute_ansible mute ansible spinning callback in terminal.

Changed

• [BREAKING] Syntax verification for yaml configuration files enforced by jsonschemas. Documentation

  • Some syntaxic changes (e.g. depends_on attribute in workflow.yaml must now be an array)

  • Error logs should be verbose enough to fix configuration files.

  • Refer to the schemas in the documentation as a baseline reference.

• Improved logging in terminal

  • e2clab.log and e2clab.err log files in experiment result dir.

  • --debug parameter to allow debug-level logging.

  • --mute_enoslib mute inherited enoslib logging.

  • --mute_ansible mute ansible spinning callback in terminal.

• [BREAKING] Changed optimize workflow. Documentattion

Removed

• [BREAKING] Retired optimize command. Instead directly use API, see documentation

Documentation

• Experimental Setup

• Experimental Workflow

• E2Clab command-line interface

2.1.0

Added

• Provenance Data Manager: allows users to capture provenance data of Edge-to-Cloud workflows at runtime

Documentation

• The Provenance Manager

• How to capture provenance data of Edge-to-Cloud workflows

2.0.0

Added

• New Providers: Chameleon Cloud and CHI@Edge

• Multi-platform workflow deployment

• TPG monitoring: Telegraf + Promotheus + Grafana

• FIT IoT LAB power consumption monitoring

• New CLI commands such as check-testbeds and new parameters for deploy (scenarios_name and app_conf) and workflow (app_conf and finalize_wf)

• Add support for EnOSlib 8.1.5

• Reusable User-Defined-Services (+10 services)

Changed

• New definition of layers_services.yaml for the following attributes environment ( to support multiple testbeds), monitoring (switch between Dstat, TIG, and TPG), services (link to different testbeds)

• NetemHTB for network emulation

Documentation

• How to setup G5K, FIT IoT LAB, Chameleon Cloud and CHI@Edge testbeds

• How to setup monitoring (Dstat, TIG, and TPG)

• How to optimize workflows (workflow parameter search)

• New tutorials

  • Edge-to-Cloud: Grid’5000 + FIT IoT LAB

  • Edge-to-Cloud: Chameleon Cloud + CHI@Edge

  • Application Optimization

  • Monitoring (Dstat, TIG, and TPG) + FIT IoT LAB power consumption

  • Running COMPSs Applications on G5K (Docker deployment)

• Jupyter Notebooks

• New publications

1.0.0

Initial public release.

Added

• Allow the deployment, execution, and monitoring of application workflows

• Allow the optimization of application workflows

• Add support for EnOSlib 7.1.0

• Add support for Ray 1.7.0